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Rogue Trader rulebook would like to have a word with you (page 375):
Servo-skulls are human skulls (often that of a favoured servant or low ranking tech-priest) that have been fitted with rudimentary artificial intelligence, support systems, and an anti-grav motor to provide mobility.
For carrying capacity use the standard rules from page 267 with the ...

Space marines carry out constant trials to find the best of the best on dozens of worlds, those that pass the first test are taken to the home worlds and further tested to make sure no one got through with just a passing grade.
Form there it takes one year to produce a space marine using lost technology, all of which the candidate spends unconscious as ...

I would say : NO.
The Servo Skull is a hollowed out skull, brain is only held "working" by a cognitator, and the AI is the one that is controlling the skull. It might have some resemblance to it's previous owner, it might even feel "haunted" by his spirit, but the object itself is just a robotic utility.
You will have as much result with as putting Vox on ...

Yes.
The Inquisition are the secret police of the Imperium responsible for guarding the souls of humanity. They fight against all threats. There are 3 major orders within the Inquisition:
Ordo Malleus, the daemon hunters who protect mankind from the daemonic dangers of Chaos
Ordo Hereticus, the witch hunters who protect mankind from themselves (treason, ...

Well assuming a Loyalist Chapter, if the Chapter in question found out you'd given over one of the most sacred things they posses (gene-seed being the literal future of the Chapter) to the Inquisition, they'd probably be less than pleased unless the Inquisition immediately handed it back. Depending on the Chapter, that displeasure could be communicated as ...

The things the Warp does come in roughly two types:
Spew forth endless legions of Daemons to subjugate the Materium, kill every living creature and fashion their souls into underpants.
Whatever it wants. The Warp works in non-euclidian time and space ways potent and bizarre enough to kill a Doctor Who writer at 100 paces. The Warp does not care, the Warp ...

DIY Astartes, or So You Want To Play Emperor
First off, I need to stress that this is a VERY BAD IDEA. The Space Marines were made by the Emperor Himself, and making your own would be akin to playing Emperor, which is so much heresy the Inquision would leap onto your ass until your butt resembled an auto-da-fé. Plus, the existing Chapters will NOT like you ...

Indeed!
There exist many orders within the inquisition that handle various threats to the Imperium of man, and Inquisitors are not tied to any one specific order.
Typically the Ordos Hereticus handles the rise of cults within the Imperium, while the Ordos Xenos handles the rising threat of the Xenos. However, it is not unheard of (rather common really) ...

Your answer can be summed up by:
YOU IS UN-ORKY!!!!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!
I'm serious.
Even normal human in presence of blank feels bit off and psyker is taking it to the next level: imagine that you have to be close to someone who REALLY, REALLY stinks, to the point where your nose simply stops functioning - not very nice experience, but you can ...

Yes, for some of the primarchs. Forgeworld sells them as part of their Horus Heresy series.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/The_Horus_Heresy/HORUS_HERESY_CHARACTER_SERIES
They have eight of the primarchs represented there (as of the time I'm posting this answer). The minis are designed more for display than play (they're expensive too), but they do exist.

Because of what happened to all the cool computers (read Dan Abnett's Dark Mechanicum for the 30K version of this tale) 40K can't suffer even a Commodore 64 to live.
Bottom line, all the parts of the brain that were the person are dead. Some things remain: pattern recognition, short-term memory capacity, but only the barest rudiments, to make it an ...

The answer to that question leans more in in the general direction that it isn't a good idea to leave the Warp within the force of a gravitational body.
Considering that a ship is required to leave the solar system to open the Warp and enter through it, it would be safe to assume the same is required for exiting as well; lest you unleash unforseen ...

I am unaware of any changes...
Official list of primarchs says that:
Lion El'Jonson sleeps at the rock.
+++Records expunged+++
Fulgrim, Daemon prince, rules over a pleasure world.
Perturabo, Daemon prince, ruler of Mendregard
Jaghatai Khan's location is unknown. Possibly lost in the webway.
Leman Russ disappeared in to the eye of terror, unknown.
Rogal ...

In my opinion - no.
The Dark Eldar are the living embodiments of all that is wanton and cruel in the Eldar character. Highly intelligent and devious to the point of obsession, these piratical people revel in the physical and emotional pain of others, for feeding upon the psychic residue of suffering is the only way they can stave off the slow consumption ...

Use a lot of computer speak in the insult. E.G: in Dan Abnetts book Titanicus, one of the characters uses the phrase "very error shunt abort" to mean pissed off.
In many books, the Tech Priest tends to be an over exaggerated version of Spock and yet can still get angry about something. In my experience, only a few books have covered Tech Priests with any ...

I think there's no mechanics on that, but it's a matter of personal roleplaying. Surely corruption must affect the character, the question is how it should affect.
Some characters would be becoming more and more evil, maybe without noticing it. Others would be somewhat conscious of their corruption, and will try to fight it or at least hide it. The ...

Yes and No. As already mentioned, the Inquisition is based on the three major orders. Your Inquisitor belongs to one specific order and will send your warband to an incident it suspects to be caused by the threat his order is fighting. However, suspicions can be wrong.
The guy suspected as a chaos cult leader may as well be
an absolutely normal mafia don ...

It seems unlikely. The Dark Eldar seek out ever more extreme stimuli to subject themselves and others to. Any substance that can knock a Dark Eldar unconcious is either incredibly rare, impossible to develop a tolerance against (presumable even with biological augmentation, which the Dark Eldar seem to be into), or so potent a single drop would kill ten ...

Just how SevenSidedDie pointed, it takes more than just a gene-seed to create a Space Marine. You need a wide array of organs and implants, and a team of experienced apothecaries, and the process can last for years. Not only that, the reciever of the organs and the gene-seed must be 18 years old at most, and has to be strong enough to survive the drastic ...

Dark Eldar suffer from The Thirst, a need to drink the souls of other beings. This rejuvination also reverses aging, so as long as they keep devouring enough souls the Dark Eldar in question is functionally immortal. This means that if they don't have enough souls they'll eventually die of old age, but are more likely to do so before this happens in frantic ...

The dark eldar are a race that consists of individuals and organizations just like any other race (probably except Necrons and the hive mind) in the galaxy. That means they will never willingly align with Chaos.
However, Chaos does not ask nicely. The forces of Chaos will lure those that seek more power than their race's hierarchy would let them have. It ...

Dark Eldar are sneaky sadistic space pirates. If they don't want to be seen or heard, with technology or with human senses, they won't be detected. They can show themselves with one blip to terrify their prey before striking: it's sadistic, evil, sneaky and right up their alley.
One thing you should keep in mind is how this is going to end up for the ...

I've played a little Rogue Trader, but am familiar with these ideas, and role playing in a hierarchy. Which is why I would honestly advise solution one, for a few reasons.
Firstly, there may be some 'geographic' challenge to having your Arch-militant fill both the roles of Master-at-Arms and Master of Ordinance. The barracks might not be located near the ...

As a Blackshield, you forego your oaths to your Chapter and swear yourself to the Deathwatch for life. The exact reasons why do not need to be shared with the members of the Deathwatch: only that you are still willing to serve the Emperor to the best of your abilities. Blackshields are willing to take the worst jobs without complaint and are very willing to ...

316.8 kph at least, depending on calculation order. Up to 736.4 kph.
The calculation you linked is mostly correct up until the unnatural bonuses.
Unfortunately, only Unnatural Speed affects speed at all.
So I will repeat it here again:
50 starting agility
+5 from being a Raven Guard
+5 from armor history
+10 from power armour mk6
+20 from all of the ...

A player who wants to role-play his/her character appropriately must take all things into account, including Corruption or Insanity points. There is no obligation on how you play your character, but by the same token your character's Demeanor also doesn't mandate how you must play your character. One thing the GM can do is award or penalize players with ...

Yes, you can only swap the laspistol for another main weapon if it has the 'main weapon' tag.
Yes, this prevents the Rough Riders from swapping out their laspistol, as it's no longer their main weapon.
This is presumably because it's possible to finish Regiment creation with only the laspistol as your main weapon, depending on doctrines and regiment ...

When one who stands the Long Watch falls in battle his gene-seed is taken (if possible) to be returned to their Chapter: Flesh Tearer gene-seed goes to the Flesh Tearers, Minotaurs gene-seed goes to the Minotaurs and so on. The equipment (black and silver armor, Bolter and more) returns to the Watch Fortress in question.
Given that the Marine in question ...

There are three orders of the Inquisition, one of them being Ordo Xenos (alongside Malleus (Demons) and Hereticus (Heretics)). Ordo Xenos is specifically for weeding out the alien influence from mankind's galaxy.

Just received the book today. Based on one of the Betas I downloaded, I was expecting something drastically different and not compatible with the other 40k games. Apparently, they caved to pressure on the final product. Everything is pretty much identical to Only War. This is both good and bad. Good, because compatibility. But I was really looking forward to ...